Tag Archives: interest-sciencetech

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   Typewriters Were Originally Created To Help The Blind

   Typewriter enthusiasts around the globe felt a bit blue back in 2011 after hearing that Godrej and Boyce, one of the world’s last operational typewriter factories located in Mumbai, India, closed its doors for the last time after an impressive one-hundred-and-fourteen year run. Once regarded as an indispensable device for any writer, the typewriter has long been regarded for both its beauty and functionality. Ernest …

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   Who Is The “Nobel” In “Nobel Prize”?

   Each year in October, the Nobel Prize committee in Stockholm announces what has become a sort of gold medal for science, literature, and politics. Six annual winners receive a sum usually worth millions of dollars in addition to oodles of prestige. After you read this, you will always associate the namesake of the prize with the word boom. Why the Nobel story is explosive Alfred Nobel was …